Two new releases: RailClone Lite/Pro 1.3.0 and Forest Pack Pro 3.7.3 beta.

We have created a footpath scene for our users. This scene combines the distribution of grass and stones over irregular terrain and leaves tinted with Forest Color.

Download now the Path through the field scene, ready to render with Forest Pack Pro and VRay.

• Multiple areas by object.
• Collision detection with external objects.
• New Paint tool integrated with areas.
• Improved performance for complex splines.
• Scale falloff by distance to the camera.
• And much more, see all changes here.

We have created a wonderful landscape for our users. This scene combines the distribution of trees, grass and stones over irregular terrain.

Download now the Lake with pier scene, ready to render with Forest Pack Pro and VRay.

• More than 50 new models added to the Library, including Chainlinks, Stone walls, Moldings, Bridges, Handrails, Street lights and Trusses.

• Fixed Forest Color->Tint by Element issues with Mental Ray
• All maps now work properly with 3D textures, including VRayDistanceTex
• Fixed issues with the Detach/Attach procedures

French archviz artist Matt Guetta reviews Itoo Software’s Forest Pack Pro for Max Underground: “… one of the easiest and most powerful plugins available for creating realistic vegetation environments.”

Read the review

• New plugin: Forest Color, with random maps and tint by element.
• Scattering by UV Surfaces (Forest Pro only.)
• Full integration of the Library Browser with HQ Plants through of HQ Catalog.
• The free HQ plants are included in the package.
• Color Tint is enabled in Forest Lite (except tint/map by Element).
• Max 2012 compatible.
• And much more, see all changes here.

• Alignment and scale for UV surfaces
• HQ Free plants included in the installation package
• and other fixes. See all changes here.

• Fixed geometry issues with Bevels.
• The assigned spline can be selected from the quad menu.

HD Flowers 1 - Roses is a collecion of beatiful and high-quality 3d models of roses, created by 3d Mentor. It contains over 40 realistic models including materials, textures and ready for rendering in VRay and Mental Ray.

Also as special summer offer, we give to our customers a discount of 25% in the purchase of any of the HQ Plants libraries, this offer will be available only until 7th July, 2011.

• Added geometric shaders for VRay and Mental Ray
• Render massive railing and structures over paths as long as kilometers
• CPU Multi-core support. Global performance have been improved
• Max 2012 compatible
• and much more, see all changes here.

Also with this relase ends the launch offer of RailClone Pro, but the base price by license is reduced from 200 Eur to 180 Eur.

Several issues are fixed on this release. See all changes here.

• Adjustable alignment to the surface
• Transform now supports color maps for XYZ ranges
• The Library Browser has greatly improved
• Added support for VRay 2.0 SP1 and 1.5 SP6
• And multiple fixes. See all changes here.

• Render massive railings and structures in Mental Ray
• Objects are converted on the fly to native render instances
• mrProxies are supported
• See all changes here.

• RailClone Pro 1.1.2 beta, adds Max 2012 support and VRay improvements
• Glue, Clone and ColorEdge in the downloads page
• See the current state of all plugins for Max 2012 here

• Full 3D scattering using UV surface coordinates.
• New plugin: Forest Color. Random texture maps and Tint by element.
• Points-cloud performance has been greatly improved.
• The Library Browser now supports 3D objects.



and other improvements and fixes. See all changes here.

The individual license base price is reduced to 180€, and includes one year of upgrades and other benefits.

See it in the Forest store section.

This tutorial shows you how to create step by step a realistic grass sunset field using Forest Lite with VRay or Mental Ray.

Get the final ready-to-render scenes, including materials and lighting setup for both render engines!

See it in the Forest tutorials section.